" Turn on syntax highlighting
syntax on

" Automatically wrap text that extends beyond the screen length
set wrap

" Tabs 
set tabstop=8 softtabstop=0 expandtab shiftwidth=4 smarttab

" Show line numbers
set number 

" Display different types of white spaces 
set list 
set listchars=tab:›\ ,trail:•,extends:#,nbsp:.

" Set status line display
set statusline=%F%m%r%h%w\ [FORMAT=%{&ff}]\ [TYPE=%Y]\ [POS=%l,%v][%p%%]\ [BUFFER=%n]\ %{strftime('%c')}

" Encoding 
set encoding=utf-8

"Highlight matching search patterns 
set hlsearch

" Enable incremental search 
set incsearch

" Include matching uppercase words with lowercase search terms 
set ignorecase 

" Include only uppercase words with uppercases search term 
set smartcase 

" Highlight matching pairs of brackets. Use the '%' character to jump between them.
set matchpairs+=<:>

" Speed up scrolling 
set ttyfast

" Fixes common backspace problems 
set backspace=indent,eol,start